The Skating Rink - Rilegato

Bolano, Roberto

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0811217132 ISBN 13: 9780811217132

Casa editrice: New Directions, 2009

Riassunto

When figure skater Nuria Marti is dropped from the Olympic team, a pompous but besotted civil servant secretly uses public funds to build a skating rink in a local ruin of a mansion in a seaside town of Spain, but Nuria has affairs, provokes jealousy, and soon the rink becomes a crime scene.

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Set in the seaside town of Z, on the Costa Brava, north of Barcelona, The Skating Rink oscillates between two poles: a camp ground and a ruined mansion, the Palacio Benvingut. The story, told by three male narrators, revolves around a beautiful figure skating champion, Nuria Marti. When she is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team, a pompous but besotted civil servant secretly builds a skating rink in the ruined Palacio Benvingut, using public funds. But Nuria has affairs, provokes jealousy, and the skating rink becomes a crime scene. A mysterious pair of women, an ex-opera singer and a taciturn girl often armed with a knife, turn up as well. A complex book, The Skating Rink's short chapters are skillfully broken off with questions to maintain the narrative tension: Who was murdered? Who was the murderer? Will the murderer be caught? All of these questions are answered, and yet The Skating Rink is not fundamentally a crime novel, or not exclusively; it's also about political corruption, sex, the experience of immigration, and frustrated passion. And it's an atmospheric chronicle of one summer season in a seaside town, with its vacationers, its drifters, its businessmen, bureaucrats and social workers.

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• Editore: New Directions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0811217132
• ISBN 13: 9780811217132
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 182